Thursday marks 35 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake jolted the Bay Area, killing 63 people and injuring about 3,700.. The 6.9 magnitude quake struck at 5:04 p.m. and was centered in the Santa ...

In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the Bay Bridge. At the time, California's leading engineers said it was a "powerful warning" that the bridge needed to be made earthquake safe.

ABC7's Leslie Brinkley was driving across the Bay Bridge when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit Northern California on October 17, 1989, killing 63 people and causing billions in damage.

When the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake struck 20 years ago this week, the shaking snapped off a 50-foot-long section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge's eastern span, and it crashed onto ...

The 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the Bay Area, killing 63 people, destroying thousands of homes, toppling the Cypress Freeway in Oakland and taking out a portion of the Bay Bridge.

Over three decades after the powerful Loma Prieta earthquake struck, some experts maintain that the strongest quake to hit the Bay Area since 1906 could have been much more destructive. Latest U.S.

A: After a section of the eastern span collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the state studied the seismic sturdiness of all its large bridges. The eastern span was found to have multiple ...

Almost 22 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake exposed the frailties of the original Bay Bridge, and following a decade of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the outline of the ...

25 years ago today, the Loma Prieta earthquake jolted the Bay Area for 15 long seconds. Magnitude 6.9 on the Richter Scale. Violent shaking from the epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains collapsed ...

It’s the reason Caltrans upgraded the Bay Bridge in the first place: After the 7.1-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, we all knew the eastern span could not survive another major temblor. Now ...

Loma Prieta: 34 years since deadly earthquake rocked the Bay Area By NBC Bay Area staff • Published October 17, 2023 • Updated on October 17, 2023 at 11:40 am NBC Universal, Inc.